Oyster Recovery Project

With the requisite lectures in the natural sciences under their belt, Chesapeake Semester students started off on their second Journey that would last 10 days and take them from the remote and peaceful forests of Shenandoah National Park to the crowded boardwalk of Ocean City with stops at the marsh swamps of Black Water National Wildlife Refuge and the coastal bays of Chincoteague and Assateague Island National Wildlife Refuge.

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As part of the third journey, which concentrates on policy that affects the bay, Chesapeake Semester students traveled to Cambridge, MD to visit Horn Point Lab and the Oyster Recovery Partnership to see how oysters are grown in captivity to be released into the bay, in hopes that they will one day repopulate the bay’s endangered oyster population. In the afternoon, the group visited Marinetics, a private aquaculture operation that produces oysters for sale to restaurants and distributors.

Traversing Peru from West to East: The Chesapeake Semester team left Lima’s arid coastal desert and the ribbon of marine abundance of seals, sea lions and guano birds along its shores for the Amazonian interior. Traveling by plane, bus and boat students would explore the interior jungle of the Tombopata National Reserve for three days and three nights.